The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
By: Lynne Murphy
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American …
Want to Read $ 13.99"How can any of us ever be sure that we know what other people mean when they use words?"-Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
"How can any of us ever be sure that we know what other people mean when they use words?"-Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
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1. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children
By: Po Bronson , Ashley Merryman
3.51
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
In a world of modern, involved, caring parents, why are so many kids aggressive and cruel? Where is… read more
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2. The Story of English in 100 Words
By: David Crystal
3.82
Format: None pages,
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tou… read more
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3. The World Without Us
By: Alan Weisman
4.09
Format: 296 pages,
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more
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4. The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea
By: Charles Robert Jenkins
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his po… read more
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5. Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
By: Kory Stamper
3.37
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Do you have strong feelings about the word "irregardless"? Have you ever tried to define the word "… read more
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6. The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus
By: Amy-Jill Levine
3.57
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Country Western singer Kinky Friedman often performs a song entitled "They Ain't Making Jews Like J… read more
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7. Rose Under Fire (Code Name Verity, #2)
By: Elizabeth Wein
2.86
Format: 442 pages, Hardcover
While flying an Allied fighter plane from Paris to England, American ATA pilot and amateur poet, Ro… read more
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8. A Long Way from Chicago (A Long Way from Chicago, #1)
By: Richard Peck
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Join Joey and his sister Mary Alice as they spend nine unforgettable summers with the worst influen… read more
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9. In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build a Perfect Language
By: Arika Okrent
3.42
Format: 32 pages,
Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man's attempt to bring … read more
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10. The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
By: Hampton Sides
4.51
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage … read more
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11. Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell
By: John Preston
4.23
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell f… read more
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12. The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
By: David Spiegelhalter
4.17
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
In this "important and comprehensive" guide to statistical thinking ( New Yorker ), discover how da… read more
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"this book is part of what could be called a new wave in statistics teaching, in which formal probability theory as a basis for statistical inference does not come in till much later"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"[Adolphe Quetelet] developed the idea of 'social physics', since the regularity of societal statistics seemed to reflect an almost mechanistic underlying process. Just as the random molecules of a ga…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"We have seen the problems that result when researchers only report significant findings, but perhaps more important are the conscious or unconscious set of minor decisions that might be made by the r…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
"When the CERN teams reported a 'five-sigma' result for the Higgs boson, corresponding to a P-value of around 1 in 3.5 million, the BBC reported the conclusion correctly, saying this meant 'about a on…"-David Spiegelhalter, The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data
13. Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.06
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping ques… read more
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"It is impossible to overrate the importance of Homer on the culture and religion of ancient Greece. It is not that the Iliad and the Odyssey were “the Bible"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible."-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The Old Testament says no word about either eternal bliss for the righteous dead or everlasting punishment for the wicked. The poets praise God, instead, for allowing them to stay alive for a while l…"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
"The fear of death in antiquity differed from the terrors of torment or horrors of actual nonexistence experienced by so many in the West today. It was instead the dread of losing out on everything a …"-Bart D. Ehrman, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
14. Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World in a Big Way
By: Roma Agrawal
3.63
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Royal Society Science Book Prize A structural engineer examines the sev… read more
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15. Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
By: Gretchen McCulloch
4.05
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. … read more
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"Irony is a linguistic trust fall."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
"Language is humanity's most spectacular open source project."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
"The appeal of having friends in your pocket is unlikely to go away."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
"We've had the right to adapt longer than we've had the right to prevent copying."-Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
16. The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
By: Hana Videen
4.26
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from … read more
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"For some reason, the ball-biting beaver doesn't live on in modern fiction like Aslan the lion or Fawkes the phoenix."-Hana Videen, The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
17. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
By: A.J. Jacobs
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more
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18. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
By: Jing Tsu
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more
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19. The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
By: Lynne Murphy
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
An American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and American … read more
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"How can any of us ever be sure that we know what other people mean when they use words?"-Lynne Murphy, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
20. French Windows
By: Antoine Laurain
3.72
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Bringing his trademark style and charming whimsy, Antoine Laurain’s new novel of intrigue, murder a… read more
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